"I had an orange parrot and an albino parrot. The albino laid eggs and the orange one dug a safety pit for the babies to hide in. Both fish were very protective of the fish and the eggs, but especially the albino mother. The eggs hatched and we wound up with two that got pretty big. The were black and white striped. I never could figure out why. But there were no other cichlids in the tank and the way the parrots were acting made it obvious that they were the parents. I love parrot fish because they are more like dogs than fish to me. They are the only fish that I know of that see and react to what's going on outside the tank. They swim over to me when I'm near the tank because they want to get fed. And they're ALWAYS hungry, even if they just ate 10 minutes ago. I always say that they eat better than me! Now I have some tattoo parrots. I know that people think that it's crul to tattoo them but they don't seem to mind or notice for that matter. They say that fish don't have a very long memory anyway. They say that when a fish swims around the tank and sees another fish, they think it's the first time they've seen it. That's how short of a memory they have. This would explain why they don't get stir crazy being couped up in a tank, because they forget that they're in one."

"Ben Cook"

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